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Contact information


david.holdsworth@dpag.ox.ac.uk

Research groups

Collaborators

  • Neil Herring
    Neil Herring

    Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, BHF Senior Fellow and Consultant Cardiologist

  • Nick Talbot
    Nick Talbot

    Associate Professor and Consultant in Respiratory Medicine

David Holdsworth

MStJ MA DPhil DAvMed FRCP

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Dr David Holdsworth is a military consultant cardiologist, with a background in exercise physiology and metabolism (DPhil in DPAG in Exercise Metabolism in the Clarke Group). He is a senior lecturer in the Academic Department of Military Medicine. He specialises in cardiopulmonary exercise testing, aviation cardiology and cardiac imaging and is the clinical lead for diagnostic exercise testing in the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His research interests include human performance, altitude, hypoxia, acceleration and other environmental extremes and the use of exertional cardiopulmonary assessment to define the cause of functional limitation in patients with breathlessness and other exertinal limitations. Lt Col Holdsworth led the UK military clinical response to Long COVID (the Defence COVID recovery service, DCRS) and was the Oxford University PI for the associated Military COVID (MCOVID) study. Email: david.holdsworth@dpag.ox.ac.uk